A rather hilarious video where Onion commentator Poyuan Wei talks about how great the [*chingov*] is, and how infallible the Chinese legal system is. h/t to Alex on Hao Hao Report.Read More
Cultural understanding; it’s a lot of what this fine multi-authored blog is all about. So, in my latest missive for Lost Laowai, I’ll get straight to the point in trying to help you understand the sociological signage and semiology of contemporary Chinese male fashion. All right, I’ll come clean, that’s just an excuse for a …Read More
I’ve often seen images of the Yunnan rice terraces, but they’ve all shown them as a lush-layered green. This is the first time I’ve seen them at harvest time, bringing to mind the cornucopia of colours that decorate the countryside of my home country, Canada, at this time of year. Be sure to check out …Read More
Okay I realize it’s been awhile since I posted, but I’ve been in a bit of a coma — a coma created by Ma Jian. His latest novel Beijing Coma  is what did it. The book is about the events in the building to that June day in 1989, and told through the memories of a …Read More
Neocha, China’s premier online creative community, has just released the third album on its Netlabel: Tomorrow’s Afternoon Tea / 明天的下åˆèŒ¶. You may remember a post a while back where we interviewed Neocho CEO Sean Leow, and talked about their awesome NEXT player, which streams indie Chinese music for free. The new album contains 10 tracks …Read More
The comments on this photo’s flickr page say it all – “classic China”. As the warm weather is quickly becoming a memory, I wanted to slip this image, by Elephant on a Bicycle, in here before we bundle up and don our long undies for winter.Read More
Banks collapsing, countries on the edge of bankruptcy, a near-return to the Great Depression. All looks somewhat surreal when viewed from the other side of the planet, does it not? Precisely when – or how – the global crisis will impact on ordinary people in Asia is hard to estimate, but it’s likely to, in …Read More
Taken by Jaune d’eau at the Kunshan Beerfest this September. I just love this photo – for the lighting, for the unique subject, for the expressions in the crowd – and for the fact that it has this very reminiscent revolutionary feel to it; sort of a Great Leap Forward meets drunken carnival. I had …Read More
I don’t usually pick the newest submission to the Lost Laowai Flickr Group as the photo of the week, as there’s always a backlog of great photos I like to pull from – however I couldn’t resist this stunning shot of a small inhabited island in Hunan by Douglas M. Paine/AlphafishRead More
This was actually game two for the day, but it’s hard to work a half-day in Suzhou, jump on a two hour train and get to the Nanjing Olympic Stadium (no Olympic events have been or ever will be staged here, by the way) in time for a 2 pm game. Plus, Chico and I …Read More
Only two days until the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and with all the cynicism floating around – we here at Lost Laowai needed a little somethin’ somethin’ to … ahem… raise our Olympic spirits. Thanks to ChineseTools.eu for helping us out. Observant readers will remember we featured these girls previously as well.Read More
When China shifted its view on food subsidies this week, it was considered a major about face for a country that has been open to free trade for the last 30 years. According to writer Naomi Klein in the conclusion of her book The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism, this turn is happening …Read More
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